by Stephanie Kraft | Apr 1, 2010 | News
The United States’ nuclear reactors have already accumulated enough high-level radioactive waste in the form of spent fuel—63,000 metric tons—to fill the Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada if plans for that repository hadn’t been cancelled....
by Tom Vannah | Apr 1, 2010 | News
As disappointed as I’ve been in Deval Patrick—a governor who looks likely to leave office with as few positive and lasting contributions to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as that uber-opportunist, Mitt Romney—I don’t agree with some of the...
by Stephanie Kraft | Apr 2, 2010 | News
Soon it will be time to start talking about the costs of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, and the potential costs of a comparable accident here. If there were such an accident in the U.S., we would learn more about the real costs of...
by Mark Roessler | Apr 2, 2010 | News
“There are two things you don’t want to see being made—sausage and legislation.”—Origin uncertain; often misattributed to German Chancellor Otto von Bismark Driving along Route 116 between South Deerfield and Conway, just as the road...
by James Thindwa | Apr 2, 2010 | News
Public school teachers have taken a beating from politicians, opinion-makers, business and foundation leaders and just about everyone else. Lazy teachers, it is said, have wrecked our public education system. A March 2010 headline in Newsweek put it bluntly:...
